World Series Kulturkampf, Game 2 Amendment

Based on the comments from Thursday’s Kulturkampf, I’d be remiss not to address Scott Feldman’s “positively rabbinic red beard.”

A sometimes starter starter in the regular season, Feldman has worked out of the bullpen to great effect this postseason (10.1 IP, 10 K, 0 BB, 62.1% GB, 1.38 FIP, and a perfect 100% LOB). I couldn’t find anything as to whether Feldman credits his beard or, more importantly, his god, for this postseason success, but after Navin Vaswani’s excellent article on Wednesday night, I began to wonder whether Jewish players give [a] god credit and praise for their baseballing triumphs to the same degree that Christian many players do, if at all. I don’t mean to get into that at all here, but Scott Feldman is Jewish, and so by sporting an identifiably Jewish beard he has brought his religious heritage into the public eye.

At first, I was confused when people screamed, “What about Scott Feldman’s beard?!” because when I looked at his pictures while compiling my pics for Thursday’s Kulturkampf, this is what I found:

. . . which is still a lot more interesting than most of his teammates, not to mention every St. Louis Cardinal not named Jason Motte–because: is that an intentional bald spot on his chin? Or does it just look like a bald spot because his hair’s so red? It’s enough to make this “author” proclaim Scott Feldman a Ginger Enigma!

And does any one else think that his current beard resembles the Big Dipper? If not, consider this evidence, brought to you by my mediocre Photoshop skills:

Had I considered this all for Kulturkampf Game 2, the Rangers would have won more handily. In short, I’m sorry for missing Scott “NotCorey” Feldman.